Melissa’s Cozy Teacup

No longer can we read labels simply to check the fat, sugar, carb and protein content. These days, it feels like one needs a degree in nutrition and agriculture just to navigate the grocery isle and for what? Cheap food that is slowly poisoning us anyway.

My husband and I just finished watching, ‘King Corn’. If you liked, ‘Fast Food Nation’, I think you like, ‘King Corn’. I use the term, ‘like’, very loosely here, people. If you like knowing where your food comes from, you’ll like this movie. If you like knowing you’ve been fed bad food as well as a pack of lies, you’ll like this movie. If you enjoy, cheap, easy food, you’ll hate this movie. If you enjoy soda, you’ll hate this movie. If you are already in a pit of despair over what’s in your food, you’ll hate this movie even more, and maybe for telling you about it all.
King Corn is about two college graduates who set off to find out why there is corn in their hair. You heard me. No, not bits of corn, creamed corn or corn on the cob, but traces of corn showing up in their hair, kind of like how they test for drug use these days. What ever you eat or smoke or take internally, ends up stored in your hair like a mini bio library.
Come to find out, corn isn’t just in high fructose corn syrup, but because they feed it to animals, it’s in our meat too unless you eat grass feed live stock or fish, but I’m sure somehow, some day, someone will figure out how to get corn into fish.
I won’t go into the whole movie, but I do want to encourage you to rent it or buy it and watch it, with friends if you can get them too, just don’t feed them corn based snacks while you are watching the movie.
Consider this; these days, most cattle, not all, but most, spend the last 140-150 days of their lives in feed lots. Eating corn. To get FAT. The more they weigh, the better price for the cattle rancher. So, if eating corn for 140-150 days makes cows fat (the fat content of their meat rises from about 1.5 something percent to a little over 9 percent per ounce of meat, that is astonishing!), imagine what it is doing to you, and your children. What do you see in almost every building, break room, and lunch room in the nation? Soda/soft drink machines. What is the cheapest, most popular commercial sweetener out here today? Corn syrup.
More people die from diabetes every year than they do from AIDS. I’m not saying AIDS isn’t treatment worthy, I’m just trying to shine some light of the fact that in many people, diabetes goes undiagnosed. there is a link between diabetes and soft drinks which contain high fructose corn syrup.
I wanted to draw your attention to this today so that you can be aware of how you are slowly being poisoned. If you are as tired of being poisoned and lied to by the government and those who grow and raise our food, then let’s do something about it, stop drinking soda (drink tea instead! lol)
Read the labels on your food, not just for calories and carbs, but for high fructose corn syrup. Buy only grass fed meat. If the demand for this genetically engineered food goes down, perhaps things will change. This would not be happening if it were not so profitable.
Another shocking part of the movie, there were so many!, was how genetically modified corn has become. originally, corn had, and should have, more protein in it, but today’s corn, is mostly starch.
I hope you’ll stop and think next time you are in the grocery store, about what you are putting into your body and read the label beyond just carbs, protein and fat content.